Press Reviews

• Guardian

  Christine was the living emblem of courage. The spectacular virtues of those people who gave their lives for freedom on a daily basis must be honoured

• Mail on Sunday

  Gripping

• Daily Telegraph

  An exciting story . . . Christine was cool, fascinating, graceful, secretive, alternating a vivid warmth with remoteness, a lover of freedom and a law unto herself

• Sunday Telegraph

  This biography, stark, earthy, uplifting and bloodstained, deserves to be read even by those who are tired of war books. In Christine, Dostoyevsky, I suspect, would have found a heroine to his taste

• MAIL ON SUNDAY

  Gripping.

• DAILY TELEGRAPH

  An exciting story. . . Christine was cool, fascinating, graceful, secretive, alternating a vivid warmth with remoteness, a lover of freedom and a law unto herself

• SUNDAY TELEGRAPH

  This biography, stark, earthy, uplifting and bloodstained, deserves to be read even by those who are tired of war books. In Christine, Dostoyevsky, I suspect, would have found a heroine to his taste